(Oslo) The Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik, who asks for his parole ten years after killing 77 people, presents the same risks as a decade ago, said Wednesday a psychiatrist who observed him in detention.
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Sentenced in 2012 to a 21-year prison term that could be extended, accompanied by a minimum sentence of ten years – the maximum at the time – Breivik, 42, is pleading this week for his release, assuring have renounced violence.
“I believe that Breivik has the same diagnosis as the one he always had,” psychiatrist Randi Rosenqvist told the Telemark court on the second day of a relocated procedure, for security reasons, in the gymnasium of the Skien prison (south) where the extremist is incarcerated.
“The risk of future violent acts has not changed from 2012 and 2013 when I wrote my first assessment,” she said.
According to the expert, Breivik suffers from personality disorders which she described as “asocial, histrionic and narcissistic”.
On July 22, 2011, the right-wing extremist detonated a bomb near the government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight people and then killing 69 others, mostly teenagers, by opening fire on a summer camp in Labor Youth on the island of Utøya.
The testimony of Mr.me Rosenqvist, the only psychiatrist called to the stand, was considered central to the issue of Breivik’s early release, deemed extremely unlikely at this stage.
Generally placid, the extremist repeatedly shook his head during his speech.
He for his part complained of the conditions of detention, saying he was treated “like an animal”, for lack of sufficient contact with the outside world.
In prison, he has three cells, a television with DVD player and games console and a typewriter. In 2016, he succeeded in having the state condemned for “inhuman” and “degrading” treatment due to his isolation, a judgment which was overturned on appeal.
“Someone who has been tried for a criminal act can never guarantee that they will never do it again because it depends on society, if they give them a chance or not,” he told the three on Tuesday. judges, who asked him to prove that he was no longer, as he claims, a violent militant.
“I can give my word of honor that I will leave the kingdom” of Norway if released, he added.
His request for parole shocked in the Nordic country, where families of the victims, survivors and experts feared that he would make a political platform broadcast live by certain media, fears that his behavior – Hitler salute, signs, ideological tirade – have comforted.